Democrats lose ground in 6 states with election forecaster’s postdebate shift. - eviltoast

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Biden’s defiance against calls for him to leave the presidential campaign after last month’s debate have only worsened his chances in November, Cook Editor-in-Chief Amy Walter wrote.

“Biden was losing pre-debate. Now, he’s losing by a bit more,” she said, adding that the possibility Biden leaves the race at this point is “remote.”

Citing postdebate polling, Cook announced it will move Minnesota, New Hampshire and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District from “Likely Democratic” to “Lean Democratic.” The group also moved Nevada, Arizona and Georgia from “Tossup” to “Lean Republican.”

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    Why do you insist on these insane projections?

    Harris is fine. Fucking Newsom is fine. Fucking ANYONE who is able to get through a fucking sentence where they remember how the sentence started is fine. It would also be great if they didn’t advocate for the dropping bombs on brown babies so we could win back MI/ MN/ and WI, but at this point, Biden has an effectively 0% chance of winning this thing.

    If you advocate for him, or are trying to prevent a conversation that is critical of him, YOU are a Trump supporter.

    • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I’m not advocating for anyone other than not trump- but I am concerned that putting someone up that no one knows much about is gonna cause people to just not vote out of frustration/apathy/ignorance, and then what happens?

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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        4 months ago

        People know about Biden. He’s losing. This would be a fine argument if he was just winning but looked shaky, but that’s not the situation.

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      4 months ago

      Harris will lose. She’s less popular than Hillary Clinton - that’s fucking impressive.

      So I very much object to “Harris is fine”.